Eliud Owalo the UDA deputy secretary general takes over from Joe Mucheru as Information Communications and Digital economy minister...
Few incumbent ministers backed Ruto during the election campaign and a group of senior ministers such as Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi Devolution CS Eugene Wamalwa the Ministry of Information and Communications' Joe Mucheru and Agriculture CS Peter Munya vocally opposed him...
In October Ruto's United Democratic Alliance (UDA) wrote to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission protesting the inclusion of the cabinet secretaries for the interior and communications ministries – Fred Matiang'i and Joseph Mucheru – in the multi-agency team planning for free and fair general elections given they have been openly campaigning for Odinga...
The ministers Itumbi was framing – Peter Munya (Trade and Industry) Sicily Kariuki (Health) Joseph Mucheru (ICT) and James Macharia (Transport) – have indeed been meeting at La Mada but on Kenyatta's authority...
However the cabinet's Information Communications and Technology secretary Joe Mucheru has since argued that the ban against IDEMIA was only imposed after the government had made the order and so it could not be applied retrospectively...